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Editor, writer and teacher Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961) graduated from the Philadelphia High
School for Girls and, following undergraduate work at Cornell University, she received a Master's Degree in French from the University of Pennsylvania. She served as literary editor of The Crisis (1919-26), journal of the NAACP. Two of her novels are set in Philadelphia: There is Confusion and Comedy American Style.